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The American Idea: The Literary Response to American Optimism

The American Idea: The Literary Response to American Optimism

Carter, Everett
Scaglione, Aldo

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807896349
ISBN13: 9780807896341
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 1 2011
Pages: 285
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The American idea, a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature. Carter treats the response to this idea in most of the major and many of the minor writers of the nineteenth century, including Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, William and Henry James, Mark Twain, Howells, and Henry Adams, and sees the persistence of the idea in the novels of Saul Bellow.

Originally published in 1977.

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